Hexaman Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 When tracing bitmaps to vectors option is added to designer? Just found this useful for doing laser cutting, logo design, exporting vectors into 3D-softwares for extrusions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 12, 2019 Hi Hexaman, Welcome to Affinity Forums There's no eta for any specific feature. The dev team is planning to add it at some point but only if the quality of the output is up to the level they are aiming for. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowerider Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 On 2/12/2019 at 3:37 AM, Hexaman said: When tracing bitmaps to vectors option is added to designer? Just found this useful for doing laser cutting, logo design, exporting vectors into 3D-softwares for extrusions. Until (or if) a bitmap tracing function is added to A-Designer, I use Inkscape's "Trace bitmap" function. It works reasonably well for my needs. This how I use that function... 1. Import bitmap into Inkscape. The higher the bitmap's resolution, the better. 2. Select the bitmap then run "Trace bitmap." The function's basic settings work fine in general for my needs. 3. Save the trace in Inkscape's native vectore file format, SVG. 4. Open/import the SVG in A-Designer. Inkscape website: https://inkscape.org/ (Current stable version: 0.92.4) In addition to using Inkscape vector files in A-Designer, I use them in laser engraving, CNC wood engraving, and CNC milling of aluminum and steel parts. Quote What I do: Document design/typesetting; Stock photo images; Digital art | Apps I use: Publisher, Photo, Designer | My PC: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U; 16.0GB RAM; Win 10 Home (21H2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 If someone reading this doesn't want to try using Inkscape - it's a very capable vector application but the learning curve is quite steep - they could try an online vectorizer, such as: https://www.vectorizer.io/ I've not used this particular site myself so I don't know how well it works, and you should always be careful about what you send to free online processing sites (carefully read all of the terms and conditions, especially about what they do with your uploaded file, there could be copyright issues you might want to avoid), but it might be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Actually you have to take some third party tool for tracing here, like for example: Free: potrace DragPotrace (a Mac GUI for potrace) autotrace Inkscape (uses potrace) MS Expression Design 4 Commercial: Super Vectorizer Image Vectorizer Vector Magic ...and so on... Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hi all, this is off-topic for the beta forum, so I'll move it to Suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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